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Bernard Kerik, the former New York City police commissioner running Iraq's Interior Ministry, has an unusual take on the wave of attacks on American soldiers that claimed five lives last week. It's an encouraging sign of change, he says. "It gives me the sense that the rule of law is taking hold and the freeing up of Iraqi society is working," Kerik tells TIME. "There are people in pockets of resistance who have lost a lot of power, and as Iraq blossoms and flourishes, these groups are going to come out and rebel. That's a clear sign...
While the U.S. has tried to push Iraqi faces into the forefront of government activity, designating American officials as "advisers" to the coalition-appointed Iraqi ministers, Kerik has assumed complete authority over the police forces. "I run the Interior Ministry," he says. Not bad for a boy from Paterson, N.J., who was abandoned by his mother when he was 4. Kerik is starting largely from scratch. Because the allies destroyed the ministry's old 12-story headquarters, the entire department is working out of a 10-ft.-by-12-ft. office. Only 15 of the civil servants who used...
...can’t fund myself so I can’t go to China,” said Claudine C. Stuchell ’04, who was planning on doing research in the interior of China, in Yunnan...
Trading classes for careers and dining halls for kitchens, seniors must soon learn how to adjust to life outside of the Harvard house system. To ease the transition, FM brought in Felice L. Silverman ’85, an interior designer who knows what it’s like to move from Harvard housing to a home of one?...
...proved, would be a breach of the Geneva Convention. The arrest was an embarrassment for Tony Blair, who traveled to Iraq to visit British troops. Tracking the Terrorists SAUDI ARABIA Police investigating the suicide bombing attacks in Riyadh last month arrested 11 people in Medina. Interior Minister Prince Nayed said the detainees included three clerics thought to be al-Qaeda sympathizers. Authorities believe al-Qaeda was responsible for the attacks, which killed 34. The arrests bring to 21 the total number of suspects in custody, but U.S. officials said there was still a risk of further terrorist attacks...